When it’s Wednesday, it’s cinema time. Today, we offer you our selection of films for the week, to help guide you through the darkened theaters.
1. We, the Leroy’s by Florent Bernard
Sandrine Leroy informs her husband Christophe that she wants a divorce. Their children are soon old enough to leave home. In a last-ditch attempt as bold as it is unlikely, Christophe organizes a weekend to save their marriage: a trip through the key places of their family’s history. A journey that will not be easy…
2. Ghostbusters: The Ice Menace by Gil Kenan
The Spengler family returns to where it all began, the iconic New York firehouse. They must team up with the original members of the Ghostbusters, who have set up a top-secret research lab to take ghost hunting to the next level. When the discovery of an ancient artifact releases an army of ghosts that threatens an ice age on the city, the two Ghostbusters teams must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age.
3. Madame Hofmann by Sébastien Lifshitz
“Welcome to my life”, this phrase, Sylvie Hofmann repeats almost all day long. Sylvie has been a nurse manager for 40 years at the northern hospital in Marseille. Her life is a race. Between patients, her mother, her husband, and her daughter, she has devoted her days to others. What if she decided to think about herself? To retire? Does she have the right, but more importantly, does she really want it?
4. Rosalie by Stéphanie Di Giusto
Rosalie is a young woman in France in 1870 but she is not like other young women, she harbors a secret: since birth, her face and body are covered with hair. Fearing rejection, she has always been forced to shave. Until the day Abel, a cafe owner drowning in debt, marries her for her dowry without knowing her secret. But Rosalie wants to be seen as a woman, despite her difference which she no longer wants to hide. By letting her beard grow, she finally wants to be free. She wants Abel to love her as she is, while others would reduce her to a monster. Will Abel be capable of loving her? Will she survive the cruelty of others?
5. The Adventurers of Noah’s Ark by Sérgio Machado, Alois Di Leo
Vini and Tito, two music hall artist mice, see their dreams of success sink when the Earth is flooded by the Deluge. With a stroke of luck, they manage to board Noah’s Ark. Caught in the middle of a dispute between herbivorous and carnivorous animals, Vini and Tito have the perfect solution to ease the tensions: a singing contest!
